New Delhi, March 27 -- Periasamy Kumaran (IFS:1992), presently Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom.

He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

Kumaran entered the Indian Foreign Service in 1992.From January 1994 to June 1997, he worked as Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Cairo, while studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo From July 1997 to December 2000, he served as Second Secretary, then First Secretary of the Indian Embassy at Tripoli, Libya. From December 2000 to September 2003, he was First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Brussels. From September 2003 to March 2005, he was Director of the Western Europe department in the Ministry o...